Seit 1995 führt die Projektgruppe ,IAB-Betriebspanel"" regelmäßig ein jährliches Forschungstreffen durch. In dieser Tradition fand am 4./5. Oktober 2001 die 7. Veranstaltung dieser Art zum Thema ,Betriebliche Reorganisation und Fachkräftebedarf"" in Iphofen statt. Der Band dokumentiert die...

Interest in the potential effects of different systems for organizing work and managing employees on the performance of organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern about the sources of competitiveness in...

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of organizational change on workers. We find evidence that employers do appear to compensate at least some of their workers for engaging in high performance workplace practices. We also...

Using a German employer-employee matched panel data set this paper examines the effects of High Performance Workplace Systems (HPWSs) on labor productivity (defined as sales per worker) and labor efficiency (defined as the inverse of unit labor costs). The estimation results indicate that simple...

The assignment of workers to tasks is an important feature of the organization of production within firms. We study how task allocation across workers changes in response to productivity shocks. Pairing hourly productivity data from a ready-made garments firm with granular data on exposure to...

"This book explores the role of co-manufacturing in the current social and productive system. It also presents the multi-factory model, that is the model elaborated by the authors to realize from scratch a medium or medium to large sized co-manufacturing space"--